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A neaste of vvaspes latelie fovnd out and discouered in the Law-countreys

yealding as sweete hony as some of our English bees [by William Goddard]

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[What shall wee thinke nowe of the Iack-dawes state?]

What shall wee thinke nowe of the Iack-dawes state?
Is not that Fowle becom a Potentate?
The Eagles howse of stickes and strawes are built
Free from vaine pompe; not burnist ore with guilt
But Dawes haue built em howses wondrous faire
With proude pyramides t'out-braue the aire
Blame not the Dawe to leaue base, strawes to peck:
You see whose' nowe the Iacke-dawes archytect.